The problem is that not all OSes allow you to treat a directory as a normal file. Unix-like systems (including OS-X, but not OS-9) do, but Windows probably won't and VMS definitely won't (AFAIK). What happens then?

As for the code being yours or not ... don't feel defensive. If it's not yours, you don't have anything to worry about. If it is yours, you've taken the right step(s) to fix your error(s) and learn better programming techniques. Either way, you have no fault.

As for the entire pick-a-file thing ... there should still be a list of permissible files being presented within the PHP. At that point, both the Perl and the PHP need to agree on what this list of files is so that the PHP can present the list and the Perl can validate against it. Just because you have more than one code file doesn't mean the solution is wrong.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

In reply to Re^3: Bad code from the trenches by dragonchild
in thread Bad code from the trenches by Whitehawke

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